Elizabeth Taylor on Finding Her True Calling

"I'm finally happy, because I'm doing something that really needs to be done. I'm needed for things other than my skin and my hair and my history--all that silly baggage that people still carry around for me. I'm not saying that films are worthless, but they pale in comparison to sitting at the bedside of a lonely person who needs to be loved or comforted. It's far more rewarding to sit in a waiting room with a family waiting for help and results than it is to wait for the thirteenth take of a scene. You see, I got smart and useful in my old age. There's hope for us all." --Elizabeth Taylor on her AIDS activism/Interview with James Grissom/1991/

From "Elizabeth Taylor: The Complete Divinity."

Magnificent until the end. Cherished forever.

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (For Marcia)

Please visit the link below.

http://www.onebillionrising.org/

Bad Girl Art

@badgirlart

by Keithley Pierce

Mid-Day Eye Candy (And My 200th Post!)

I love the B&W photography.

Damaged Goods

Don't fucking forget it.

Still From "A Streetcar Named Desire"

Vivien Leigh. Perfection.
(Pictured not smoking, ha!)

Some Hot Illustrated Lady Smoking (With a Gun)

There are too many different artists claiming this on Google Image Search.
If it's yours and you found it on my little blog, let me know. 

Jim Morrison Smoking, and With a Dog

The dog does not appear to be smoking. 

Marilyn Monroe and James Dean Smoking on Top of a Building in NYC

Mid-Day Eye Candy: Norman Reedus on a Norton Triumph (Also Smoking)

And since it's the Theme of the Day:

Smoking. In Guyliner. Whooo!

Robin Thicke Smoking in Colour and Black & White

from the video "Blurred Lines"

Robert Downey Jr., Smoking in Two Different Decades

Warning

My current theme is smoking, so be warned.

Tennessee Williams from James Grissom's "Follies of God"

"It somehow has to happen. It somehow has to hang together. We must all hang together, support each other, be a distant shore to which someone, anyone, can swim. There is no reason in the world to continue, really, unless all of us decide that it is good and necessary and kind to do so. No one really allows a book, a play, a child, a piece of music--anything at all--to become, to exist, to thrive except for the dreamer who wants to matter, who wants to commemorate a moment, a memory.

"Why is it so necessary to know why things happen? Why things turn out the way they do? I'm not against knowledge, but I am against the bland refusal of so many to acknowledge magic and mystery. Strange things happen all the time--the result of energy and faith and herculean will. Don't always get to the bottom of things. Get to the heart of things.

"To know too much and do too little--to believe too little--is to me suicidal.

"Every work of art is enclosed in that bottle that is thrown into the water of humanity. It awaits an audience and surcease. Be the one on the distant shore to pick it up, acknowledge it, and rush to help.

"Ultimately, we cannot be alone with or for anything. We have to get in the mix. Come with kindness." Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982/Photograph by Cecil Beaton/

The first in a series of people smoking.

My Current Obsession, Which Has Lasted Only Thirteen Years

Along with the rest of the world, that is.

Norman Reedus as Lucien Carr from 2000's "Beat"

and a publicity still from "The Walking Dead" with Melissa McBride:

He likes to lick people. Insert obvious joke here. Or fantasy. 

You know, whatever floats your aircraft carrier.

The Most Awesome Thing I've Seen All Month

I JUST WANT IT TO BE REAL SO THAT I CAN HAVE ONE GODDAMMIT

So... Fuck You. Not You-- YOU. LISTENING TO WOLFMOTHER.

The Julie Ruin "Oh Come On"

So what riot grrrl didn't worship Kathleen Hanna in her badass punk bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre? 

So who isn't excited about The Julie Ruin's second album?! (Oh, how I love that band name...)

The new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BuU9ytaTCA


The Classic ~ Sonic Youth with Kathleen Hanna
"Bull in the Heather"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGBNkLM9_8
That song makes me wanna fuck.

Bjork Wisdom

how could i be so immature

to think he would replace

the missing elements in me?

how extremely lazy of me!

Contemporary Visual Artists I LOVE (Who Happen To All Be Women)

Detail from a piece by Chiara Bautista

https://www.facebook.com/chiarabautistaartwork?fref=ts

Swamp Serenade for Ophelia

by Chiara Bautista

https://www.facebook.com/chiarabautistaartwork?fref=ts

Claudia Sigi (ScarletGothica.com)

                                          https://www.facebook.com/scarletgothica?fref=ts

Tomahawk Tour Poster by Miska Westell

http://www.mishkawestell.com/

Tomahawk Tour Poster by Tara McPherson

http://www.thecottoncandymachine.com/artist/tara-mcpherson/